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Isolation of a new fungi and wound-induced chitinase class in corms of Crocus sativus.
Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB - 1 May 2009
López Raquel Castillo, Gómez-Gómez Lourdes
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In plants, various chitinases have been identified and categorized into several groups based on the analysis of their sequences and domains. We have isolated SafchiA, a novel class of chitinase from saffron (Crocus sativus L.). The cDNA encoding SafchiA is mainly expressed in roots and corms, and its expression is induced by elicitor treatment, methyl jasmonate, wounding, and by the fungi Fusarium oxysporum,...
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